Bill Text: NY A09029 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the New York state energy research and development authority conduct a study on independent neighborhoods and homes in cities constructing micro-grids to study the feasibility, efficiency, and energy saving costs if such micro-grids were constructed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-05 - referred to energy [A09029 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09029-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9029

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Energy

        AN ACT directing the New York  state  energy  research  and  development
          authority   to  study  feasibility  and  efficiency  of  independently
          constructed micro-grids for homes and neighborhoods

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this act:
     2    (a)  "City"  shall  mean any city with a population greater than sixty
     3  thousand.
     4    (b) "Neighborhood" shall have the same meaning as "neighborhood  unit"
     5  as defined in section 2 of the private housing finance law.
     6    §  2.  The New York state energy research and development authority is
     7  authorized and directed to study the feasibility, efficiency, and energy
     8  saving costs for cities if individuals homes or  neighborhoods  were  to
     9  create  their own independent micro-grids. Such study shall include, but
    10  not be limited to:
    11    (a) the cost of constructing a micro-grid to power independent  neigh-
    12  borhoods and homes;
    13    (b) the feasibility of constructing a micro-grid for neighborhoods and
    14  homes;
    15    (c) the efficiency of a micro-grid for neighborhoods and homes;
    16    (d)  the  cost of operations to run a micro-grid for neighborhoods and
    17  homes;
    18    (e) the potential effects of independent micro-grids for neighborhoods
    19  and homes lessening the stress on current electrical systems; and
    20    (f) the potential cost savings of independent micro-grids.
    21    § 3. The New York state  energy  research  and  development  authority
    22  shall make a report to the governor and the legislature of its findings,
    23  conclusions,  and  recommendations  no later than seven months after the
    24  effective date of this act and shall submit with this report such legis-
    25  lative proposals as it deems necessary to implement its recommendations.
    26    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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